AP 10th Class English Question Paper June 2022 with Solutions

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AP SSC English Question Paper June 2022 with Solutions

Instructions:

1. The question paper has 35 questions in three sections (A, B and C)
2. Answer all the questions on a separate answer hook supplied to you.
3. 15 minutes of time is allotted exclusively for reading the question paper and 3 hours for writing the answers.
4. Answer all the questions of SECTION – B(Grammar and Vocabulary) in the same order at one place in ‘ your answer hook.

Section – A : Reading Comprehension

(Questions 1 – 5) : Read the following passage carefully.

Mick, who was teased and bullied, had an electric wheelchair for mobility, and a team of carers to ‘ help him.

I was deeply depressed when I was eight years old/ he said. ‘I went to my mum crying and told her I wanted to kill myself.’

‘I felt cold and bitter. I hated God for doing this to me and was terrified of what would happen-when my parents weren’t there to look after me.’

‘I could brush my own teeth with a wall mounted brush and wash my own hair with pump action soap, but there was so much that was impossible for me.’

At age ten Nick tried to drown himself in the bath but luckily the attempt was unsuccessful.
(Attitude is Altitude)

Now, answer the following questions. (5 × 2 = 10 M)

Question 1.
How did Nick brush his teeth and wash his hair ? ( )
Answer:
Nick could brush his teeth with a wall mounted brush ans wash his hair with a pump action soap.

Question 2.
What did Nick tell his mother when he was eight years old ? ( )
Answer:
Nick told his mother that he wanted to kill himself.

Question 3.
What did Nick use for mobility ?
A) a tricycle
B) an electric wheelchair
C) a chair
Answer:
B) an electric wheelchair

Question 4.
Who helped Nick at school ?
A) his parents
B) his teachers
C) a team of carers
Answer:
C) a team of carers

Question 5.
At age 10 Nick tried to drown himself in the
A) bath
B) river
C) sea
Answer:
A) bath

(Questions 6 – 8) : Read the following conversation carefully.

Abel : I’ll tell you what I’ve got to do. On Monday next I’ve got to do three things. I’ve got to go to the lawyer and alter my will, and I’ve got to go to the insurance office and pay my premium and I’ve got to go to St. Philip’s Church and get married.
Ben and Henry : What!
Mrs. Jordan : Get married!
Abe : He’s out of his senses.
Abel : I say I’m going to get married.
Mrs. Slater : Who to?
Abel : To Mrs. John Shorrockswho keep the ‘Ring-o-bells’.
(The Dear Departed – II)

Choose the CORRECT answers to the following questions: (3 × 2 = 6 M)

Question 6.
Mr. Abel wants to go to the lawyer to ( )
A) to alter his will
B) to pay his premium
C) to get married
Answer:
A) to alter his will

Question 7.
Mr. Abel was getting married at
A) Ring-o-bells restaurant
B) St. Philip’s Church
C) St. Peter’s Church
Answer:
B) St. Philip’s Church

Question 8.
Mrs. John Shorrocks is the keeper of
A) Ring-o-roses
B) Bells-o-ring
C) A) Ring-o-bells
Answer:
C) A) Ring-o-bells

(Questions 9 – 10) : Read the following passage carefully.

Mr. Sunday Nana, his wife and four small children live in Koko Village, Nigeria. The village is like any other African village-picturesque, colourful and noisy. The Nana family’s house too, is the same as all the other houses in the village, with mud walls and a rusting corrugated iron roof, and with children and chickens sharing the compound.
(A Tale of Three Villages)

Now, answers the following questions. (2 × 2 = 4 M)

Question 9.
Mr. Sunday Nana lives in ………. ( )
A) Vorobyov village
B) Koko village
C) Ponnimanthuri village
Answer:
B) Koko village

Question 10.
Mr. Sunday Nana’s house is made of ……. ( )
A) brick walls
B) stone walls
C) mud walls
Answer:
C) mud walls

(Questions 11 – 15) : Read the pie-chart carefully.

Favourite Ice-cream flavours of children

Now, answer the following questions.

Question 11.
What is the information given in the pie-chart ?
Answer:
The favourite ice cream flavours of children

Question 12.
How many flavours of ice-cream are mentioned in the pie-chart ?
Answer:
5 flavours

Question 13.
The percentage of children who liked Vanilla flavour is ………….
A) 11.6
B) 16.3
C) 41.9
Answer:
A) 11.6

Question 14.
Children like ……… flavour the most.
A) Chocolate
B) Strawberry
C) Mango
Answer:
B) Strawberry

Question 15.
Choose the CORRECT statement among the following sentences.
A) The flavour that is least liked by children is Mango.
B) The percentage of children who liked Vanilla flavour is 16.3.
C) 10.4 percentage of children like Chocolate flavour.
Answer:
C) 10.4 percentage of children like Chocolate flavour.

Section – B : Grammar & Vocabulary

Note : Answer all the questions of Section-B (Grammar & Vocabulary) in the same order at one place in your answer book.

Question 16.
Combine the following sentences using ‘who’ (2 M)
Wangari Maathai started the Green Belt Movement. She is the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Answer:
Wangari Maathi, who started the Green Belt Movement, is the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Question 17.
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice. (2 M)
Nick’s mother invented a special plastic device.
Answer:
A special plastic device was invented by Nick’s mother.

Question 18.
Combine the following sentences by using ‘since’. (2 M)
It rained heavily. We cancelled our programme.
Answer:
Since it rained heavily, we cancelled our programme.

Question 19.
Fill in the blanks with suitable preposition/prepositional phrases given in the brackets. (2 × 1 = 2 M)
a) Raghu’s house stands ………….. all the other houses in the street as it is painted red.
(apart from/in addition to/along with)
b) Sudha is fond …….. (at/in/of) sweets.
Answer:
(a) apart from
(b) of

20. Fill in the blanks with suitable form of verbs given in the brackets. (2 × 1 = 2 M)
a) As all the actors ………. (take) their positions, the curtain rose.
b) They ……… (start) acting as the director asked them to.
Answer:
(a) had taken
(b) started

Question 21.
Your friend had not been vaccinated for COVID-19. Advise him to get vaccinated. (2 M)
Answer:
You should be vaccinated for COVID -19 to stop its spread.

Question 22.
Change the following into a ‘Polite request’. (2 M)
Passenger to the conductor: Give me a ticket to Tirupathi.
Answer:
Please give me a ticket to Tirupati.

Question 23.
What do the following sentences mean ? Choose the RIGHT answer and write it in your answer book. (2 M)

i) Can I carry the luggage ?
A) Seeking help
B) Offering help
C) Seeking advice
D) Suggestion
Answer:
B) Offering help

ii) Can I leave the class early ?
A) Giving permission
B) Making a request
C) Seeking permission
D) Making a suggestion
Answer:
C) Seeking permission

Question 24.
Read the paragraph and write the synonyms of the underlined words choosing the words given in the box. (4 × 1 = 4 M)
normal, special, uneducated, capacity, changes, educated

One of the bigger transformations (a) that I saw was the ability (b) of an ordinary (c), illiterate (d) women to get to understand and to be able to plant trees that in five or ten years became big trees.
Answer:
a) changes
b) capacity
c) responsibility
d) protecting

Question 25.
Read the paragraph and match the words given in column A with their antonyms in column B. (4 × 1 = 4 M)

If one compares the last (a) major prose piece by Tagore, “Shabhyatar Sankat” which he wrote at the beginning (b) of the Second World War, which contains his immortal (c) dictum that inspite of what was happening it would be a sin to lose (d) faith in man, and the last three films of Ray portrays it.

Answer:
a) 4
b) 5
c) 2
d) 1

Question 26.
Fill in the blanks with the right form of words given in brackets; (4 × 1 = 4 M)

Because we were ……….. (a) (deal/dealing/dealt) with the environment, we gave them ………. (b) (educate
/educating/education) both in Civics and also in environment that made them clearly understand why
they should take up the (c) (responsible / responsibility / response) of ……… (d) (protect / protection/
protecting) their environment.
Answer:
a) dealing
b) education
c) responsibility
d) protecting

Question 27.
Complete the following spellings with au, iu, ou, ei, (or) ai . (2 × 1 = 2 M)

Have you got the rec_ _pt (a) for the prem_ _m (b) he paid this morning ?
Answer:
a) receipt
b) premium

Question 28.
Complete the words with correct suffixes given in brackets. (2 × 1 = 2 M)
The spirit ……. (ual/ule) poverty of some rich people is much more deplor ………. (able/ible) than material poverty.
Answer:
a) spiritual
b) deplorable

Question 29.
Find the WRONGLY SPELT word and write the correct spelling. (2 × 1 = 2 M)
a) jewelery drunken beggar furniture
b) terrain lethargy disuade protested
Answer:

Question 30.
Read the following dictionary entry of the words given below. (2 × 1 = 2 M)
fetch/fetfverb i. (especially BrE) to go to where sb/sth is and bring them/ it back : ~sb/sth to fetch help/a doctor The inhabitants have to walk a mile to fetch water. She’s gone to fetch the kids from school. ~sb sth could you fetch me my bag? SYNSell: The painting is expected to fetch a good price.
Now answer the following questions by using the above information.
a) What part of speech is the word ’fetch’ ?
b) Write the synonym for the word ’fetch’.
Answer:
a) Verb
b) Sell

Question 31.
Arrange the following words under the correct headings. (8 × 1/2 = 2 M)

night-night, easy-peasy, chuk-chuk, bow-wow, aye-aye, chop-chop, okey-dokey, helter-skelter

Duplicatives :
1. ………..
2. ……….
3. ……….
4. ……….

Rhyming words :
1. ………..
2. ……….
3. ……….
4. ……….
Answer:

Question 32.
Match the following one word substitutes in ‘Part – A’ with their meanings in ‘Part – B’. (4 × 1/2 = 2 M)

Answer:
1 – C
2 – D
3 – F
4 – A

Section – C : Creative Expression

Question 33.
Answer any one of the following: (10 M)

A) In the lesson, ‘What is my name?’, the housewife Sarada, felt very happy when she came to know, her name through her friend. She felt proud of her achievements before her marriage. She wanted her husband to identify’ her as an intelligent, independent woman rather than only as a housewife. She tells her husband to call her by her name only and shows him her certificates and medals.
Now, write a possible conversation between Sarada and her husband in the above context.
(OR)
B) In the lesson, ‘I will do it’, Narayana Murthy’s father told Narayana Murthy that he could not send him to IIT, Madras, because of his financial position. He told Narayana Murthy to study in Mysore. He felt very sad for disappointing his son whose only dream is to study IIT.
Now, imagine you are Narayana Murthy’s father and write a diary entry expressing your sadness for not being able to send your brilliant son to study at IIT, Madras.
Answer:
A) Conversation:
Sarada’s husband : Warm welcome, dear! We all missed you for these two days.
Sarada : It’s OK, dear.
Sarada’s husband : How are your parents ?
Sarada : They are fine.
Sarada’s husband : Yemoi, look at the state of the house, It’s like a choultry. Oh, what a relief for us ! May I have a cup of coffee ?
Sarada : Don’t call me yemoi geemoi. I too have a name.
Sarada’s husband : Oho, I think you have come to know your name. Am I correct?
Sarada : Yes, my name is Sarada – call me, Sarada.
Sarada’s husband : OK, dear, I will call you by your name from now onwards.
Sarada : I want equal rights, equal respect and equal status along with you.
Sarada’s husband : O.K., dear. Don’t be so serious.
Sarada : I will be happy if you help me in household duties.
Sarada’s husband : O.K., from now onwards I will share your duties, don’t worry, dear.
Sarada : You are really a good husband ! Thank you.
Sarada’s husband : You are welcome, dear.

B)

DIARY ENTRY

Dt. XX.XX.XXXX.
Dear Diary,
Today is one of the darkest days of my life. I could not fulfil my son’s desire. Murthy has cleared IIT Entrance Test which is very tough. He has a dream of joining IIT. But I am helpless. I am a middle class teacher who has other responsibilities to be fulfilled. Education in IIT is very expensive. I know I can’t afford it. I can say nothing to him except to ask him to study in Mysore. I broke my son’s heart. I don’t know what my son thinks of me. But I hope he will understand my financial position and adjust to the circumstances. He will have a bright future.

– Father

Question 34.
Answer any one of the following. (10 M)

A) Recently, we have been noticing climatic changes all over the world as a result of ‘Global warming’ which is the gradual heating of earth’s surface, oceans and atmosphere, caused by human activity, primary burning of fossil fuels that release CO₂, methane and other green house gases into the atmosphere. This results in higher temperatures all over the world, melting of ice, floods, cyclones, droughts etc.
You think that the Governments all over the world should seriously take some steps in reducing global warming. Write a letter to your friend expressing your feelings on the topic.
(OR)
B) Write a biographical sketch using the following information about the famous playback singer, television presenter, music director, actor and film producer, Sri. S. P. Balasubramanyam.
Name : Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam
Also known as : Paadum Nila, Gaana Gandharva
Profession : Singer – actor – music director – voice actor – producer
Date of Birth : 4^th June 1946
Place of Birth : Konetammapeta, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh
Parents : S. P. Sambamurthy, Sakuntalamma
Qualification : Engineering (A. M. I. E)
First film as a singer : Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna (1966)
Total number of songs sung : About 40,000
Other credits : Acted in many films
Noted dubbing artist
Hosted reality shows
Awards : National Award for best singer – 6 times
Nandi awards from A P Government – 25 times
State Awards from Tamilnadu and Karnataka
Government
Padma Shri (2001)
Padma Bhushan (2011)
Padma Vibhushan (2021) posthumously
Died : 25^th September, 2020
Answer:
A) Kadapa,
Dt. xx.xx.xxxx.

Dear Ramesh,

Hope, this letter finds you in pink of health. I am writing to you to express my feelings over the problem of global warming that has become quite alarming recently.

People, irrespective of their age – adults, kids, old age – all are finding it very difficult to tolerate the soaring temperatures. All these are a result of our own actions. Man in his greed is depleting the available resources, using fossil fuels indiscriminately.

All these resulted in release of green house gases like CO₂, methane and increase of global warming. Ultimately we are the sufferers of this global warming and its dire affects.

I feel consequences of our actions are alarming and show imminent doom of humans. In order to correct the situation we should atleast no w start planting trees in open areas so that they reduce temperature and bring rains. Scarcity of water is terribly felt in several regions.

When there are rains, people waste rain water to flow into the gutters of sewages. I feel we should harvest rain water using techniques like soaking pits so that they can fill the ground levels. Every one is to be aware of the judicious usage of water, when it is available. Governments should implement a range of strategies to reduce green house gas emissions, increase energy efficiency and take other steps to reduce their carbon footprint.

Hope you too make people aware of this and take corrective measures to decrease global warming.

Your loving friend,
T. Suresh.

To
K. Ramesh
1-8-108, B-camp,
Kurnool.

B)

S.P Balasubramanyam

Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubramanyam, widely known as S.P Balasubrahmanyam, Paadum
Nila, Gaana Gandharva, was a famous playback singer, actor,music director, voice actor and producer. He was bom on 4th June 1946 in Konetammapeta, Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh. His parents are S.P. Sambamurthy, Sankuhtalamma. He did his Engineering in AMIE. His first film as a singer was Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna in 1966. In his life time he sang a total of 40,000 songs. He is also credited for acting in many films, as a dubbing artist and he also hosted many reality shows. He bagged many awards such as National Award for best singer for 6 times, Nandi Awards from AP government for 25 times, state awards from Tamilnadu and Karnataka governments. He was also honoured with prestigious Padma Sri (2001) and Padma Bhushan (2011). Padma Vibushan (2021) was conferred on him posthumonusly. He breathed his last on 25^th September 2020.

Question 35.
Answer any one of the following. (5 × 2 = 10 M)

On the afternoon of that day, a potter (A) had arrived home after a hard day’s work. He was tired and thirsty. He had asked his wife for some palm wine (B). The more he drank, the better he felt. When the storm began the potter suddenly remembered that he had left his donkey tied under a tree. (C). He rushed out of his hut to take the animal into the stable (D). You can imagine his anger when he discovered that the donkey was not there anymore – the only thing left was its chain (E).
(OR)
B) Study the following pie-chart and write a paragraph based on the information given in it.
Cost of construction of a House

Answer:
A) Who arrived home on the afternoon ?
B) What did he ask his wife for ?
C) What did he remember suddenly ?
D) Where did he rush out to take the animal ?
E) What was the only thing left ?

B) The pie chart is about the cost of construction of a house. The total cost for constructing a house
is shared by six different categories. They are labour, steel, bricks, cement, timber and supervision. The major fraction of cost goes in labour i.e, 25%. Next, steel occupies second position with 20%. Supervision, steel and bricks share equal cost of 15% each. The least cost is of timber with 10%.